Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend. But Congress being Congress, they didn’t. On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the road for 77 days. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nutribullet, the company that makes those fancy blenders, has a problem. In general, the problem is not a lot different than a lot of other companies. Their website was hacked and one of the magecart family of credit card skimmers was installed. It turns out that was only the beginning of their problem. The first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The bad guys did not waste any time using the Coronavirus pandemic to attack folks who are suddenly Working From Home (WFH) or Studying From Home (SFH). Here is some information to help those of you who are WFH to navigate the perilous path. Given that many WFH programs were created out of nothing in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Federal Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued its long awaited report last week and warned of a “catastrophic attack that leaves the nation in tatters”. While right now everyone is worried about Covid-19, this represents a longer term problem that won’t be fixed in a few months. The report creates a vivid hypothetical attack and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]9 Years of AMD Processors Vulnerable to 2 New Side-Channel Attacks AMD processors from as early as 2011 to 2019 carry previously undisclosed vulnerabilities that open them to two new different side-channel attacks, according to a freshly published research. Known as “Take A Way,” the new potential attack vectors leverage the L1 data (L1D) cache […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DMARC is a technology that is designed to reduce the amount of spam that makes it into your mailbox. It provides an email’s recipient with instructions on how to validate a sender’s email. Unfortunately, it is a voluntary standard for both the sender and the receiver and if the sender doesn’t have DMARC setup then […]
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